Boris Johnson tells taxi driver to ‘f*** off and die’

London Mayor Boris Johnson’s office has defended him after he was filmed engaged in a four-letter tirade with a London cabbie.

The bicycling Mr Johnson told a black-cab driver to “fuck off and die” after being harangued late at night in Islington in north London.

The row was about rival minicab-booking service, Uber. Its whose activities have led to protests by London taxi drivers. They see it as unregulated competition.